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Understanding the Sociology of Health: An Introduction

Fourth Edition
by Anne-Marie Barry and Chris Yuill

Student Resources

  1. Sociological Theory: Explaining and Theorising
    • Video
    • Online Reading
    • Weblink
  2. Understanding Health
    • Online Readings
    • Weblink
  3. A Brief History of Health and Healing
    • Online Readings
    • Weblinks
  4. Evidence and Enquiry: an Overview of Sociological Research
    • Online Readings
    • Weblink
  5. Inequality and Health
    • Videos
    • Online Reading
    • Weblink
  6. Gender and Health
    • Videos
    • Online Readings
    • Weblink
  7. Ethnicity, Migration and Health
    • Videos
    • Online Reading
  8. Mental Health and Emotional Distress
    • Video
    • Online Readings
  9. Sexualities and Health (with Megan Todd)
    • Videos
    • Online Readings
    • Weblinks
  10. Sociology of the Body: Chronic Illness and Disability
    • Online Reading
  11. Health, Ageing and the Life Course
    • Video
    • Online Reading
  12. Chapter 12
    • Online Reading
    • Weblink
  13. Health Policy
    • Video
    • Online Readings
  14. Sport, Health Exercise and Wellbeing
    • Online Readings
    • Weblinks
  15. Death and Dying
    • Online Readings
    • Weblinks
  16. Health Technologies
    • Video
    • Online Reading
    • Weblink
  • Flashcards
  • General Useful Sites
  • Study skills

Online Readings

Selected online readings are available to give you more insight into chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.

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Green, J. and Thorogood, N. (2014) Qualitative Methods for Health Research, 3rd edn. London: Sage. Chapter 1.

Richards, L. (2005) Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide. London: Sage. Chapter 1.

Silverman, D. (2015) Interpreting Qualitative Data, 5th edn. London: Sage. Chapter 1.

Strauss, A.L. and Corbin, J. (12015) Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Chapter 1.

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